How to change the default browser used by jupyter notebook in windows

Question

I\'m on a windows machine without admin right and I would like to run jupyter on chrome, while the default browser is another.

I have a local installation of the Ana

Answer 1

After considerable thrashing about trying to launch a jupyter notebook in chrome from Anaconda in Win10 when chrome was not my default browser, I combined several of the suggestions above and, in the jupyter_notebook_config.py file under .jupyter in my home directory put in these lines in place of the default c.NotebookApp.browser line, and it finally worked!:

import webbrowser
webbrowser.register('chrome', None, webbrowser.GenericBrowser(u'C:/PROGRA~2/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe'))
c.NotebookApp.browser = 'chrome'

Note the use of Unix-style directory separators (this is apparently a bug in webbrowser) and the use of DOS-style "PROGRA~2" --- both of these seem to be necessary. Adding "%s" after "chrome.exe" seemed not to help.